This plugin robustly helps you create better SEO value for your content.
But at the end of the day, it all depends on how entertaining or well constructed your content or product is.

No SEO plugin does the magic thing to be found instantly. But doing it right helps a lot.
The SEO Framework helps you doing it right. Give it a try!

The default settings are recommended within the SEO Settings page. If you know what you’re doing, go ahead and change them! Each option is also vastly documented.
Don’t forget to set up the social meta settings and a home page description; those can greatly increase conversion.

This plugin:

Improves search presence by ranking your website distinctively.

Is preconfigured, providing a suitable starting point for most websites.

Listens to all WordPress gives to automatically configure SEO.

Allows you to adjust the SEO through global options.

Allows you to SEO every public page, post, taxonomy, and term.

Shows you how to improve SEO with a beautiful SEO bar.

Helps your pages get shared more beautifully through Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites.

Unbranded, Free and for the Professional

This plugin is unbranded! This means that we don’t even put the name “The SEO Framework” anywhere within the WordPress interface, aside from the plugin activation page. This plugin makes great use of the default WordPress interface elements, like as if this plugin is part of WordPress. No ads, no nags. The small and hidden HTML comments can easily be disabled with the use of a filter or extension.

Nobody has to know about the tools you’ve used to create your or someone else’s website. A clean interface, for everyone.

Completely automated

By default, this plugin automatically generates:

Titles according to your settings with archive prefixes.

Descriptions with anti-spam techniques and detection that informs you when it can be improved.

A canonical URL to prevent duplicated content; with full Domain Mapping, subdomain, and HTTPS support.

Various Open Graph, Facebook and Twitter tags.

Special Open Graph descriptions, which organically integrates within the Facebook and Twitter snippets.

Open Graph images, they are automatically resized and optimised when needed.

If the page is indexed, redirected, followed and/or archived, while looking at other WordPress settings.

We call this The SEO Bar. Check out the Screenshots to see how it helps you!

Hardcore caching

This plugin’s code is highly optimized on PHP-level and uses variable, object and transient caching. This means that there’s little extra page load time from this plugin, even with more meta tags used.

A caching plugin isn’t even needed for this plugin as you won’t notice a difference; however, it’s supported wherever best suited.

Compatibility

This plugin supports:

PHP 5.3 and higher.

WordPress 4.4 and higher.

Internationalisation through WordPress.org.

Multibyte calculation and rendering, including Emoji and CJK.

Right to Left (RTL) languages, through its interface and generation.

Extended colour vision deficiency accessibility.

Screen-reader accessibility.

MultiSite. This plugin is in fact built upon one.

Detection of robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.

Both up-to-date and outdated themes.

Detection of various other popular SEO tools to prevent duplicated output.

Translation plugins like WPML, Polylang, and qTranslate X.

WooCommerce, for free, in all its glory.

An additional sitemap

The sitemap generated with The SEO Framework is sufficient for Search Engines to find posts, pages and supported custom post types throughout your website. It also listens to the “noindex” settings on each of the items and works great with various translation plugins.

However, if you require a more expanded sitemap, feel free to activate a dedicated Sitemap plugin. The SEO Framework will automatically deactivate its Sitemap functionality when another (known) sitemap plugin is found. If it is not automatically detected and no notification has been provided in the Sitemap Settings, feel free to open a support ticket and it will be addressed carefully.

Hidden breadcrumbs

The Breadcrumb script generated by this plugin on Posts will also make sure Google easily finds related categories which aren’t included in the Sitemap of this plugin.

Screenshots

This plugin shows you what you can improve, at a glance. With complete colour vision deficiency support.

Hover over any of the SEO Bar's items to see how you can improve the page's SEO. Red is bad, orange is okay, green is good. Blue is situational.

The dynamic Post/Page SEO settings meta box. Another version of this box is also implemented for Categories and Tags.

The dynamic Post/Page SEO settings meta box also fits neatly in the sidebar. For when you want to work faster.

The SEO Settings Page. With over 100 settings, you are in full control.

Installation

This plugin requires:

PHP 5.3 or later.

WordPress 4.4 or later.

Installation instructions:

Install The SEO Framework either via the WordPress.org plugin directory or by uploading the files to your server.

Either Network Activate this plugin or activate it on a single site.

That’s it!

This plugin auto-configures its global settings, but:

Check out the SEO settings page to fine-tune your settings.

Do fill in the Schema “General” and “Presence” settings.

Do fill in the Home Page “General” settings.

Do fill in the Social Meta “General”, “Facebook” and “Twitter” settings.

Notice that red checkboxes are recommended to be left unchecked. And green checkboxes are recommended to be checked.

The SEO Framework is its own self-serving technical framework. It keeps track of everything WordPress and SEO while it allows other plugins to interact with it easily.
Through its framework it allows you to SEO your complete website. It also allows for extensions and real-time alterations; for when you really want or need to change something.
Extensions built for this plugin might just as well work as a standalone; however, The SEO Framework provides an easier and faster way of doing so.

I am a developer; how can I help?

The SEO Framework is currently a one-man project. However, any input is greatly appreciated and everything will be considered.
Please visit the GitHub project page to submit issues or even pull requests.

I want to modify how this plugin works

The SEO Framework is very pluggable in many fields. Please refer to the API documentation.

This is not an issue. Search Engines love crawling WordPress because its structure is consistent and well known.
If a visitor can’t find a page, then why would a Search Engine? Don’t rely on your sitemap, but on your content and website’s usability.

What’s do the application/ld+json scripts do?

The JSON-LD scripts are Search Engine helpers which tell Search Engines how to connect and index the site.
They can tell the Search Engine if your site contains an internal search engine, what sites you’re socially connected to and what page structure you’re using.
This is also referred to as Structured Data.

The metadata is not being updated, and I’m using a caching plugin.

All The SEO Framework’s metadata is put into Object cache when a caching plugin is available. The descriptions and Schema.org scripts are put into Transients. Please be sure to clear your cache.

I want to convert SEO data from other plugins to The SEO Framework, how do I do this?

This plugin has virtually zero bloat and is an Excellent alternative to the other very popular but extremely bloated SEO plugin on the market. I don’t normally leave reviews, but I had to, given how great this plugin performs with very little frustration, definitely recommended. Great Job!

This is by far a revelation in SEO plugins, the developer has done a great job on creating a smooth, lightweight SEO plugin to rival the long standing champions. One thing missing for me a simple redirect addon would be great.

Apart from that this is our new go to WordPress SEO plugin, so much so we have featured a blog post on it A Design Day – SEO Review

Finally a non bloated SEO-plugin. This is exactly how it should be done. Feels way more integrated into WP with a native feel. Switched to this from YOAST SEO on all my sites and it’s working great! With the SEO data transporter plugin the switch was super easy.